How to Analyze People on Sight

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Looking for "Chicken Feed"

While touring through the Rockies last summer we came one day to a log
shack perched on the mountain-side near the road. In the back-yard was
the owner, just ready to feed his chickens. As he flung out the grain
they came from every direction, crowding and jostling each other and
frantically pecking for the tiny morsels he threw on the ground. Several
dozen flocked around him. But three or four stayed on the outer edge,
ready to scamper for the big grains he threw now and then amongst the
boulders up on the hillside.

"I do that just to see them use their heads," he explained. "People are
just like that. They rush for the little chances where all the
competition is, instead of staying out where they can see a big chance
when it comes."

Life is full of opportunities for every person who will consult his own